maybe he did rip off some Bitcoin code.
Ignore it
Maybe? There's no maybe about it. John was caught red handed, dead to rights. Why are you pretending otherwise?
I politely reported the copyright violation (the code being a copy of Bitcoin Core run through an auto-formatter with all the attribution removed) as an issue on the github for the project and john-connor accused me of stalking him and then hid the issue tracker on that github from public view. :-/
I'm glad Greg Maxwell posted a warning about the fraud behind Vtrash.
"If you see fraud and don't shout fraud, you are a fraud". -Nassim Taleb
What does it make you when you see fraud, but then recommend everyone ignore the fraud?